There are book characters that you never want to part with. Such characters include Hercule Poirot. Realizing this, the Agatha Christie Heritage Foundation decided to continue the adventures of the great Belgian. And he chose the brilliant detective writer Sophie Hannah as their author... At the end of 1929, Scotland Yard inspector Edward Catchpool and his friend Hercule Poirot left London for Ireland. They were invited to her estate by Lady Playford, a famous detective writer, without saying a word about the reasons for her unexpected request. Soon, at a gala dinner, Lady Playford made public her will, according to which all of her considerable property went bypassing the legal heirs... to her secretary. That same day, this young man was brutally murdered in his room. From the very beginning it became clear: the killer was one of the inhabitants or guests of the estate. Moreover, almost each of them had a motive for the crime. But no one could commit the murder - everyone had a cast-iron alibi! Well, it is precisely such seemingly unsolvable mysteries that are the specialty of the great Hercule Poirot...